Will NYC feel like Arkansas?
More likely Queens may someday experience the climate of Brooklyn.
Climate modeling illusions
BY TOM HARRIS & Dr. JAY LEHR: The global climate scare – and policies resulting from it – are based on models that do not work.
The carbon tax scam — WATCH NOW
BY MARK MATHIS: A carbon tax would raise the price of everything. Who wins and who loses? WATCH NOW.
Saved by pseudo-renewable energy?
Climate alarmists must prove expensive, weather-dependent energy is green and sustainable
A new global warming 12-year deadline from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
Earth serially doomed: The official history of climate ‘tipping points’ began in 1864.
Age-old wisdom for a new year
British school children once learned penmanship by repeatedly writing snippets of age-old wisdom. Rudyard Kipling warned the old wisdom was being lost.
Antiquities Act, eminent domain threaten American families
Some 500 families were relocated 80 years ago when the federal government used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Shenandoah National Park. Today, a private company is seeking to use eminent domain (despite having an alternate route) to destroy farmland and displace or negatively impact about 2,700 families. There is a better way.
100 years ago: The Willy — Nicky telegrams
July 28th, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie. The great powers of Europe began to mobilize their armies. Two imperial cousins, Czar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany engaged in a fascinating exchange of telegrams (in English) as their nations teetered on the brink of war.
The myth of the 97% climate change consensus
By Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer Secretary of State John Kerry, President Obama and others frequently claim that climate change will have “crippling consequences,” and that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree that climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” In reality, the assertion is science fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and exercises in counting abstracts from scientific papers – all of which have been contradicted by more reliable research. One frequently cited source is Naomi Oreskes (lead photo). She claimed to have examined abstracts of 928 articles and to have found that 75% supported the view that [...]
Quotes from Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
Time to unmask the IRS’ Halloween goblins
We could help the U.S. Treasury and take burdens off working Americans by removing the tax exemptions for advocacy groups like Greenpeace, the Ruckus Society, PETA, and even the Council on American Islamic Relations (recently renamed The Washington Trust Foundation). Greenpeace is no longer tax exempt in Canada and New Zealand - why should working people subsidize these powerful adversaries?
From charming to alarming: Rio+20 sustainability propaganda
A small sample of the propaganda imagery of the Rio+20 summit
“Sustainable Justice” á la Rio+20
PAUL DRIESSEN & DUGGAN FLANAKIN Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” One clue to what he meant was his comment to now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Not necessarily – especially when activists, regulators, politicians and ruling elites do all they can to ensure there is less and less wealth to spread around. Just this week, the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives released a new report to the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development. The executive [...]
Sustainability = Pick Your Favorite Leftist Cause
Mission Rio - Day 5 As the first full day of the 2012 ICLEI “World Congress” kicked off, my goal was to listen and learn. In any war, intel on the enemy’s strategies is crucial to success. So with dozens of workshops filled with panels of the world’s foremost “sustainable living” experts there was no better way to truly get the inside scoop on the who, what, when, where, and why of this “crisis.” After all, ICLEI is the organization that literally started the sustainability movement and has implemented sustainability measures in over 1,200 cities in the world. I am here [...]
Can COP17 technocrats rescue the warming scam?
The mood at this year's UN climate conference is subdued. Perhaps fearful. In CFACT's talks with the representatives of government, business, even the more radical NGOs, we've yet to find anyone confident that a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol will emerge in Durban. The usual sideshow has been assembled. You can find rows of displays making their standard pleas for your tax dollars. Wind farms, solar, mass redistribution in the name of “climate justice,” and all the usual scare tactics have assembled. Oxfam actually sat at a conference table they had carried into the waves of the Indian Ocean. But [...]